Firstly, I am discussing the Windows Evernote platform.
I'll start by saying that I love Evernote, and I've been a premium user for a while. But there are some basic things that irk me about the text editor. Things which should have never been an issue inside a basic text editor.
A text editor is something that is easy to get right. Just look at Notepad. Notepad is easy to use and never tries to be anything other than Notepad.
So, why is it that when I hit CTRL-F to find something in a document - and the search window appears - and I hit ESC to exit the search window, does the cursor return to the top of the document?
Escaping from the search window should not return the user to the very top of the document. What if the document is one hundred pages long? Or any arbitrary number?
If I am writing something, and I am on page fifteen of my writing and I hit CTRL-F to find the word "dog," and the screen scrolls-up to the first use the word 'dog,' and I am satisfied that I am looking at the instance of the word 'dog' that I desire... when I press ESC, I want to go to the word DOG, not the top of the document.
I wasn't just searching because I was curious about words, because words are cute and I like how pretty they are when the sun reflects of them, I was searching for a reason. The reason was to find the word 'dog.' And evernote takes my search for 'dog' and tells me "HERE IS THE WORD DOG. IT EXISTS. NOW RETURN TO THE START OF THE DOCUMENT."
Come on. This is basic word processing.
On a typewriter, would I roll a piece of paper back to the beginning of the carriage every time I looked back for a word?
What the hell, guys?
.....
Secondly, the cursor position.
When creating a new note, the cursor position goes directly into the document. Not the title.
That is infuriating. Does google do that with email? Google didn't invent email, but they pretty-much mastered it.
Don't re-invent the wheels here, guys. Put the cursor in the title section by default.
I realize that there is a checkbox in the options menu to place the cursor in the title... but guess what??
The button doesn't work!!
Yes, it places the cursor in the title by default (WHICH SHOULD BE DEFAULT ANYWAY), but after you click that checkbox, the cursor continues returning to the title bar every 10 seconds or so.
While you're typing a sentence - right in the middle of writing a sentence - the cursor returns to the title bar.
You placed a band-aide on top of a band-aide and it doesn't work.
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These issues are basic annoying. It's a text editor. How do you ***** up a text editor?
Otherwise, I do appreciate the hard work you do. But maybe focus on your core product instead of cheesy add-ons. Thanks.
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PhilosophyAndFerrisWheels 6
Firstly, I am discussing the Windows Evernote platform.
I'll start by saying that I love Evernote, and I've been a premium user for a while. But there are some basic things that irk me about the text editor. Things which should have never been an issue inside a basic text editor.
A text editor is something that is easy to get right. Just look at Notepad. Notepad is easy to use and never tries to be anything other than Notepad.
So, why is it that when I hit CTRL-F to find something in a document - and the search window appears - and I hit ESC to exit the search window, does the cursor return to the top of the document?
Escaping from the search window should not return the user to the very top of the document. What if the document is one hundred pages long? Or any arbitrary number?
If I am writing something, and I am on page fifteen of my writing and I hit CTRL-F to find the word "dog," and the screen scrolls-up to the first use the word 'dog,' and I am satisfied that I am looking at the instance of the word 'dog' that I desire... when I press ESC, I want to go to the word DOG, not the top of the document.
I wasn't just searching because I was curious about words, because words are cute and I like how pretty they are when the sun reflects of them, I was searching for a reason. The reason was to find the word 'dog.' And evernote takes my search for 'dog' and tells me "HERE IS THE WORD DOG. IT EXISTS. NOW RETURN TO THE START OF THE DOCUMENT."
Come on. This is basic word processing.
On a typewriter, would I roll a piece of paper back to the beginning of the carriage every time I looked back for a word?
What the hell, guys?
.....
Secondly, the cursor position.
When creating a new note, the cursor position goes directly into the document. Not the title.
That is infuriating. Does google do that with email? Google didn't invent email, but they pretty-much mastered it.
Don't re-invent the wheels here, guys. Put the cursor in the title section by default.
I realize that there is a checkbox in the options menu to place the cursor in the title... but guess what??
The button doesn't work!!
Yes, it places the cursor in the title by default (WHICH SHOULD BE DEFAULT ANYWAY), but after you click that checkbox, the cursor continues returning to the title bar every 10 seconds or so.
While you're typing a sentence - right in the middle of writing a sentence - the cursor returns to the title bar.
You placed a band-aide on top of a band-aide and it doesn't work.
----
These issues are basic annoying. It's a text editor. How do you ***** up a text editor?
Otherwise, I do appreciate the hard work you do. But maybe focus on your core product instead of cheesy add-ons. Thanks.
-Alex
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